Karl Boedeker

Karl Heinrich Detlev Boedeker (born September 20, 1815 in Hanover , † February 22, 1895 in Göttingen ) was a German pharmacist and chemist .

Life

From 1831 to 1835 Boedeker completed an apprenticeship as a pharmacist in Hanover, was an assistant in Cologne in 1837/38 and then on wanderings in Basel, Lucerne and Vevey . From 1843 he studied pharmacy at the University of Göttingen , obtained his license to practice medicine in 1844 and then worked at the Hof pharmacy in Hanover. In 1846 he made up his school leaving examination and worked in Friedrich Wöhler's laboratory in Göttingen in 1847/48 . In 1848 he received his doctorate as Dr. Phil. With about the distribution of plant substances in general, together with a special consideration of some substances from the family group of the cocculins Bartlg. and completed his habilitation in Bonn in 1850. From 1850 to 1854 he was a private lecturer at the University of Bonn and in 1854 he became a professor of pharmaceutical or physiological chemistry in Göttingen. He was also head of the chemical department of the Physiological Institute. From 1857 he was an assessor at the Göttingen Academy of Sciences . He concentrated on training pharmacists and resigned his teaching post in 1866.

He was married to a granddaughter of Johann Heinrich Voss .

He dealt with mineralogy, physiological chemistry (investigation of the components of saliva and pus) and phytochemistry ( berberine in the colombo root ). He discovered Idryl ( fluoranthene ) and lycopodine .

Publications (selection)

About the Idryl and Idrialin . In: Liebigs Annalen der Chemie 52, 1844, pp. 100-106
About the distribution of plant substances in general, together with a special consideration of some substances from the family group of the cocculins Bartlg . Goettingen 1848
Translation of Henri Victor Regnault's chemistry textbook into four volumes
The regular relations between the composition, density and specific heat of the gas . Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, Göttingen 1857
The relationship between density and composition in solid and liquid substances: a supplement to the textbooks of chemistry and mineralogy . Arnold, Leipzig 1860
The composition of natural silicates . 1887

literature

Deutsche Apotheker-Biographie , Vol. 1, 1975, ISBN 3-8047-0518-9 , p. 65.
Dirk Böttcher : Boedeker, Karl Heinrich Detlev. In: Dirk Böttcher, Klaus Mlynek, Waldemar R. Röhrbein, Hugo Thielen : Hannoversches Biographisches Lexikon . From the beginning to the present. Schlütersche, Hannover 2002, ISBN 3-87706-706-9 , pp. 60-61 ( online via Google books ).

Individual evidence

^ Heinrich Wamhoff and Martin G. Peter: Chemistry in Bonn ( Memento from January 26, 2009 in the Internet Archive ) (English).
↑ Holger Krahnke: The members of the Academy of Sciences in Göttingen 1751-2001 (= Treatises of the Academy of Sciences in Göttingen, Philological-Historical Class. Volume 3, Vol. 246 = Treatises of the Academy of Sciences in Göttingen, Mathematical-Physical Class. Episode 3, vol. 50). Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, Göttingen 2001, ISBN 3-525-82516-1 , p. 43.

personal data
SURNAME	Boedeker, Karl
ALTERNATIVE NAMES	Boedeker, Karl Heinrich Detlev (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	German pharmacist and chemist
DATE OF BIRTH	September 20, 1815
PLACE OF BIRTH	Hanover
DATE OF DEATH	February 22, 1895
Place of death	Goettingen

[1] Heinrich Wamhoff and Martin G. Peter: Chemistry in Bonn ( Memento from January 26, 2009 in the Internet Archive ) (English).

[2] Holger Krahnke: The members of the Academy of Sciences in Göttingen 1751-2001 (= Treatises of the Academy of Sciences in Göttingen, Philological-Historical Class. Volume 3, Vol. 246 = Treatises of the Academy of Sciences in Göttingen, Mathematical-Physical Class. Episode 3, vol. 50). Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, Göttingen 2001, ISBN 3-525-82516-1 , p. 43.